[April Lexington]

The Chinese lent us the money to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq because we are keeping Islam pinned down in their back yard. They lent us the money. We have to pay it back with interest. Nice guys, eh? This time, the Chinese are NOT lending us the money so Mr. Bernanke is printing new stuff yo buy the Treasury bonds our bankrupt government has to sell to raise the money to buy the bombs, pay the soldiers and fund Executive Branch vacations. So... we don't have the money. We should be storming WASHINGTON DC in OUR pick-up trucks demanding that our OWN dictator resign and leave the country. Maybe the French will bomb is but,l hell, that would be worth the price of admission just to see the French out from under the table!

[montanajoe]

I don't buy the economic sky is falling theories..they are so much snake oil pushed by hucksters trying to sell gold or by market traders trying to create a market to cover their shorts.